Technology & Science
Mar. 9, 2017
Fighting implicit bias in the courtroom with virtual reality
Judges and jurors could participate in a five-minute VR training session before trials. Using just a headset and a pair of motion-tracking handheld devices, a juror could enter a virtual room and physically embody an outgroup member. By Natalie Salmanowitz
Natalie Salmanowitz
Natalie Salmanowitz was a 2015-2016 Fellow at Stanford Law School's Program in Neuroscience and Society, and is currently a 1L at Harvard Law School. For a full description of virtual reality in the courtroom, see her article, "Unconventional Methods for a Traditional Setting: The Use of Virtual Reality to Reduce Implicit Racial Bias in the Courtroom," University of New Hampshire Law Review: Vol. 15: No. 1, Article 2.
In 1987, Justice Lewis Powell delivered one of the most notorious U.S. Supreme Court opinions in the history of our nation. In McCleskey v. Kemp, the court encountered a set of staggering statistics that documented disproportionate levels of capital sentences for black convicts charged with killing white victims. Not only did the court choose to overlook this data and deny the potent impact of racial disparities in ...
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